Feb. 1899. 



NORTH AMERICAN FISHES MEEK. 



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Our specimens agree with description of Jordan & Beardslee. 



"In life this is a very brilliantly colored fish, possessing many 

 iridescent hues, and brought to my mind in its general appear- 

 ance the Weakfish of our northern salt waters, though more bril- 

 liant but without the bright-hued fins. The operculum is opal- 

 escent and very beautiful in its bright and changeable colors. 

 This species will take a fly in the spring, and a spoon trolled at a 

 depth of fifty feet or more in later seasons of the year. It grows to 

 a large size, one obtained weighing eight pounds, but it has been 

 procured weighing much more than that. Exceedingly gamey, 

 it battles well for its life, whether on spoon or fly, and altogether 

 is one of the finest of our fresh-water fish. There is no red 

 under lower jaw, so conspicuous a mark on the Lake Souther- 

 land trout, and it is not so dark on the head and back, nor 

 thickly marked with black spots as is that species." (D. G. E.) 



Salmo bathoecetor, sp. nov. 



Long-headed Trout. Two specimens from Lake Crescent, 



Body elongate, slender ; head much pointed ; anterior margin* 

 of upper jaw slightly above axis of the body ; maxillary very 

 long and very slender, reaching considerably beyond posterior 



